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Michael W. McLellan.
Monasticism in Egypt: Images and Words of the Desert Fathers.
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press, 1998.
ISBN 977424463X;
ISBN-13 9789774244636.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in Egypt.
Size: 260x246x15mm.
Page count: ix,101pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and marks on the dustjacket, noticeable but not severe, a little wear on its edges and corners; the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

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This item £35.00
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Weight without packaging: 819g.

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Contents: McLellan's photographs of modern-day Egypt are faced with quotations from the Paradise or Garden of the Holy Fathers, compiled by Athanasius of Alexandria, St. Palladius, St. Jerome, et al (trans. E. A. Wallis Budge, 1907).
Appendix: Text sources.

Illustrations: monochrome photographs throughout
Maps & plans:

Foreword: by H.H. Pope Shenouda III; Afterword by Otto F. A. Meinardus.
[No apparatus].

[BML/LF]

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See also | Coptic religion | Monasticism | Photo essays |

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